CN1973293A - System and method for customized industrial textile coloration - Google Patents

Abstract

A method and system for customized industrial textile goods manufacturing in which, under control of a client system, information is retrieved relating to the design of a customized textile good to be manufactured; desired design data is selected from one or more databases; additional individual data is optionally input; and the selected and inputted data is sent to a manufacturing system as a request for manufacture; and, under control of a manufacturing system, the request is received; an order for manufacturing a customized textile good is generated; uncut uncoloured fabric inventory material is provided; and the uncoloured fabric inventory material is subsequently coloured, cut and sewn in a combined process in order to obtain a finished customized textile good according to the request, whereby colouring of the uncoloured fabric inventory material is performed by means of a digital a digital coloration apparatus.

Description

The system and method that is used for customized industrial textile coloration

Technical field

The present invention relates to the colored textile manufacturing, relate in particular to and make customization coloured clothes, family and office decoration textiles and industrial textile.

Background technology

Colored textile, especially printing textile, clothes and family and office's decorative product are the article of following fashion.Clothes are typical trendy products.Family and office decoration textiles can be, for example, and curtain, curtain, window blind, chair cover and other furniture covers, sheet and cotton-padded mattress, pad cover etc.Because the change of consumer's life style, fashion even extend to industrial textile.Industrial textile comprises cleaning, furniture, household textiles and carpet, geotextiles and civil engineering, medicine and health, protection clothes, motion and easy dress.When consumer's leisure time increases,, wherein a plurality of by the reinforcement of hi-tech material then to the increase in demand of special-purpose moving articles.Navigation, windsurfing, take advantage of hot air balloon and the parachute jumping do not have light and durable fiber-based material under can not carry out.

In recent years, the fashion cycle period becomes shorter and shorter.With short period round-robin trend more is large batch of customization and individualized.Thereby the manufacturing of each order sharply reduces in batches.The average length of the calico of every kind of Color Scheme has reduced 50% to 700 meter from 1400 meters in the past 10 years.

The textile supply chain is complicated, long and poor efficiency for toggery especially.The commodity of private label and code can have from fiber and are fabricated onto the almost purchase cycle in 1 year of selling the product finish.Almost carrying out the year before that these commodity are sold, this has caused not matching of supply and demand to the design of toggery and pattern and determining dimensions.Wasted the economic time limit in the retail terminal storage as the textile commodity of toggery, this is the result of the supply of material chain of above-mentioned long purchase cycle and length and poor efficiency.In order to satisfy more in short-term still the demand in cycle and to satisfy mass customized or personalized requirement, must shorten purchase cycle greatly.

At present, textile is by painted in fiber, yarn or fabric.Especially in low labor cost country, printing textile is at first by screen printing technique stamp on fabric.The advantage of the high speed stamp of serigraphy is screen printed in the low dirigibility of design variation aspect and offsets.The engraving silk screen, printing machine is set and blend color is consuming time and expensive, thus uneconomical when small serial production.Thereby serigraphy is in the demand that can not satisfy retailer and trade mark people aspect the quick response.In addition, coloured fiber, yarn or fabric are consuming time in dyeing, and can not satisfy the requirement of short purchase cycle.

The improvement of this respect can realize by using digital dye technology.In the modern textile product were painted, textile designs can obtain to be digital format, thereby this numerical information can be directly used in digital technology, is increased in the dirigibility of design variation aspect and the quick response of hope is provided.

United States Patent (USP) 6, one kind of 173,211 Bl are used for making from work materials the equipment and the method for fabric pattern sheet, make each pattern piece have to be used to the printed design that constitutes clothes etc., and having such Fabric Design, it is provided with design feature with the predetermined way with respect to the line that limits the sheet border.Dye injection technology by computing machine-control is printed on the textile designs on the textile web, by a stamp in the scope of the pattern piece of hope.Patterned templates is set to nest relation, cuts out and printed markings with manufacturing.Use this mark to control printing machine the pattern piece of hope is printed on plain weave not on the PRINTED FABRIC sheet.Pattern piece is printed with the Fabric Design of suitable aligning, is cut out from fabric web then.

Thereby one aspect of the present invention provides a kind of system and method is used for customized industrial textile coloration, it is in conjunction with painted step and cut out and make step, changing design, layout, color, pattern and the size of fabric product at one time separately, thereby reduce so-called purchase cycle.And one aspect of the present invention is by using digital flexibly coloring system, painted step being moved to cut out and make in the operation or front and back.

Summary of the invention

Thereby an aspect of of the present present invention is provided for making the method and system of customized industrial textile goods, and described system comprises client system side and manufacturing system end.Obtain the information of the design that relates to the customized textile good that to make and select desired design data from one or more databases.Then, import additional individual data alternatively, and the data with input that will select send to manufacturing system, wherein receive data as the request of making.Manufacturing system produces the order that is used to make customized textile good according to the data that receive.

By the uncoloured fabric stock material do not cut out being provided or, can making textile article in a different manner by (cut out in advance and make in advance) uncoloured textile article is provided.In the first and second possible embodiment of the present invention, select in advance or determine to provide the uncoloured fabric stock material of not cutting out or cut out in advance by the method for initialization system.In this case, fabric is painted at the next step of making step.In the 3rd possible embodiment of the present invention, with the uncoloured fabric articles of default for selecting to cut out and make, it is painted afterwards according to request.

Under the situation that the uncoloured fabric stock material of not cutting out is provided, in group technology, the uncoloured fabric stock material that provides is carried out painted (being stamp or dyeing), cuts out and make, with the customization fabric articles that obtains to finish according to request.Providing under the situation of cutting out uncoloured fabric stock material in advance, the uncoloured fabric stock material of cutting out is in advance carried out painted and make, to obtain the customized textile good of finishing according to request, in two kinds of situations,, for example pass through the painted uncoloured fabric stock material of digital printing equipment by digital coloring apparatus.Under the situation that the uncoloured textile article of cutting out and making is provided, also by the painted uncoloured textile article of digital coloring apparatus.Be appreciated that word " stamp " herein is not restricted to topical printing, but also extend to the plain weave of textile painted.In addition, the coloured customized fabric clothing of manufacturing directly or by retailer or other point of sales is transported to the buyer.

Thereby an aspect of of the present present invention is provided for making with the purchase cycle industry that reduces the digital coloring system of a large amount of textile article of customization.This obtains by integrated manufacturing system is provided, described system uses the modern digital printing technique, it combines with the Computerized Network system of user side, in conjunction with the manufacturing customized textile good, described position is normally away from retailer and/or client in the position that provides painted and make uncoloured " preparing painted " textile.

The invention still further relates to the computer program that wherein embeds program code, it is suitable for carrying out aforesaid technology when program code execution on computers.

By instructions and accompanying drawing, other features of the present invention and embodiment will become apparent.

Be appreciated that under the situation that does not depart from the scope of the invention feature above-mentioned and described below not only can be used for particular combinations, can also be used for other combination or himself.

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Exemplary embodiment of the present invention shown in the accompanying drawing will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings hereinafter.To be appreciated that instructions is not in order limiting the scope of the invention, and one embodiment of the present of invention just to be described, wherein:

Fig. 1 illustrates according to first of the client that is used for customized industrial textile coloration of the present invention

Embodiment;

Fig. 2 illustrates first embodiment that is used for the system of customized industrial textile coloration according to of the present invention;

Fig. 3 a illustrates first embodiment that is used for the manufacturing system of customized industrial textile coloration according to of the present invention;

Fig. 3 b illustrates second embodiment that is used for the manufacturing system of customized industrial textile coloration according to of the present invention;

Fig. 4 illustrates according to the 3rd of the manufacturing system that is used for customized industrial textile coloration of the present invention

Embodiment;

Fig. 5 illustrates second embodiment that is used for the system of customized industrial textile coloration according to of the present invention, and it comprises the client that links by server system and two manufacturing systems;

Fig. 6 illustrates shown in Figure 5 according to the optional embodiment that is used for the system of customized industrial textile coloration of the present invention;

Fig. 7 illustrates according to the 4th of the manufacturing system that is used for customized industrial textile coloration of the present invention

Embodiment.

Embodiment

Fig. 1 illustrates first embodiment of the client 5 that is used for customized industrial textile coloration.Client 5 comprises that computing machine 10 (comprising CPU (central processing unit) (CPU)) is used to move computer code to implement various function as herein described, and computing machine 10 is linked to database D B, and it comprises data and the information that relates to the customized textile good design.Be appreciated that client 5 can be linked to an above database.This link can be directly (for example, database storing is in computing machine 10 this locality) or indirect (that is, database is from computing machine 10 remote storage, and remote data base is by communication protocol (for example, TCP/IP) by computing machine 10 visits).

In addition, computing machine 10 is implemented plurality of modules or element.Especially, computing machine 10 is implemented to obtain element 12, is used for obtaining information and display element 18, the information that is used for video data and obtains from database D B from database D B.Computing machine 10 also comprises input element 16 and orders element 14 that it will be described below.Input element can be coupled to the swept-volume apparatus, shown in the label in Fig. 1 example 20.Certainly, computing machine 10 can comprise unshowned element among other Fig. 1.

Fig. 2 illustrates first embodiment of the system 100 that is used for customized industrial textile coloration.System shown in Figure 2 100 comprises two subsystems, manufacturing system M and client 5, and they are interconnection each other directly or indirectly.

Client 5 can and be linked to database D B for structure shown in Figure 1.

Manufacturing system is set up and is designed to receive the request that is used to make customized textile good from client 5, and according to this request, makes the textile article of request.Fig. 3 a illustrates this manufacturing system M1, and it can comprise: receiving element 30 is used to receive the request that is used to make the customized textile good that comprises customization selection data; Producing component 40 is used to produce manufacture order; With order executive component 50, be used to produce order and carry out steering order.

Manufacturing system M1 also comprises treatment element 70, and being used to respond described instruction provides the uncoloured fabric stock material of not cutting out (from volume), and digital printing equipment 90, is used to respond described instruction and prints described uncoloured fabric stock material.Treatment element 70 and digital printing equipment 90 are all carried out control element 60 controls by instruction, and it carries out the execution of the steering order of order executive component 50 by described treatment element and described digital printing device control.Arrow A 1, A2, A3, A4, A5 represent and (A1, textile A2) is to digital printing equipment 90 and from the material stream of the colored fabric (A3) of digital printing equipment 90 from treatment element 70.Stream is that arrow A 3 enters and cuts out operation 80 and arrive client to making operation 95 and continuing along arrow A 5 along arrow A 4 then.

Be appreciated that then above-mentioned manufacturing system is worked if treatment element will be handled to be cut out textile material in advance and provide it to digital printing equipment under the situation of not cutting out operation.Certainly, above-mentioned and hereinafter can also be undertaken by the numeral dyeing that utilizes digital dyeing installation all about the step of digital printing.

Fig. 3 b illustrates the embodiment of another possible manufacturing system.Fig. 3 b illustrates manufacturing system M2, and it is very similar to the manufacturing system M1 of aforesaid Fig. 3 a, and components identical is represented with identical label with equipment.Manufacturing system M1 than Fig. 3 a, the manufacturing system M2 of Fig. 3 b comprises the equipment of cutting out 80, it is on the line between treatment element 70 and the digital printing equipment 90, make and utilize this second embodiment manufacturing system M2, can provide the uncoloured fabric of not cutting out, cut out by cutting out equipment 80 then by treatment element 70, the uncoloured fabric of cutting out is sent to digital printing equipment 90 again, painted or stamp (with arrow A 1, A2, A6 represents) wherein with it.In painted step (A4) afterwards, for example make operation by suitable sewing device 95, thereby form the textile article of finishing, wherein material stream (A5) continues to the client.

Manufacturing system can design alternatively like this, make according to the selection of selecting element 45, treatment element can provide the uncoloured fabric of not cutting out or cut out in advance, and described selection element 45 impels 50 these selections of response of order executive component to produce order execution steering order (with reference to the manufacturing system M3 of figure 7).Thereby the manufacturing system M3 of Fig. 7 can select, and provides the uncoloured fabric of not cutting out or cut out in advance according to this selection then.In another embodiment (not shown), manufacturing system can be set like this, makes to select element selection treatment element whether the fabric of not making of cutting out fabric in advance or cutting out in advance and make in advance is provided.Certainly, those skilled in the art according to the present invention initialization system can consider the every other possible combination that fabric is provided.

Work in the system 100 that is used for customized industrial textile coloration, wish to buy a textile or clothes, the client of for example any coloured clothes or family or office decoration textiles or user can at first obtain the design information about the customized textiles that will make.This information is obtained and is shown to the user by display element 18 from database D B by obtaining element 12.This information can be text or figure, and can comprise the model (for example, cad model) of two dimension or three dimensional form.In the embodiment that uses a model, receiver can interact with model alternatively (for example, rotation, applied customization quality and/or in the demonstration that changes under the optical condition).

The user then can for example keyboard, monitor, mouse or trace ball etc. be selected proper data from data presented by suitable input equipment.Usually, the data that relate to textile comprise pattern, color, figure and the size of article.Thereby buyer or user are by selecting to select and to import corresponding data from database.

In a possible embodiment, input element 16 is linked to swept-volume apparatus 20, and it allows the user to determine his or she accurate body size automatically, and its information directly and digitally is provided to system then.Alternatively, the user can be in old mode with tape measure (his body size or to carrying out at the object that will decorate under the situation that family or office decorate), and data are knocked in system, he or she can be from the Standard Selection size Selection appropriate size that is provided by database.Input element can be text or figure, and can comprise for example interface of net base interface, it comprises and offers the form that the user can fill in.The data that the user submits to by input element are sent at input information and can be in computing machine 10 locally before ordering element 14 and/or obtaining element 12 handle or handle (hereinafter will describe in detail) at the server medium-long range.Can use the various agreements that are used for by input element (or between any other element of this paper) exchange message, for example, HTTTP, HTTPS, FTP.

Client 5 can be included in family expenses or personal computer system or retail shop or other the so-called point of sales (POS) that individual private area is set.

The element 14 of ordering of client 5 produces the manufacturing request that is used for based on the data of user's selection then.This manufacturing request is sent to the manufacturing system M that is linked to client 5.Manufacturing system M can be above-mentioned any kind, i.e. any of Fig. 3 a, 3b, 4 or 7 manufacturing system M1, M2, M3, M4, or any other adequate types.(link between described system and the element can be not any one in fixed-link and the fixed-link or combination (for example, using the link of Virtual PrivateNetwork (VPN) technology).

The receiving element 30 of manufacturing system receives the request of manufacturing and also sends producing component 40 to, the content of its analysis request, and produce the corresponding order of the customized textiles fabric that is used to make described request.Receiving element can comprise communication adapter, is used for receiving information from remote computer, or any direct interconnection technique, be used for receiving information from remote computer.This communication adapter can be wired or wireless, and can comprise any known or hardware protocol in the future (for example, Ethernet, Token-ring, ATM, FDDI, etc.).In addition, the communication protocol of on adapter, using can be any known protocol (for example, TCP/IP, UDP/IP, etc.) and can comprise for example communication on the internet of local zone network (LAN) or wide Local Area Network (WAN).Directly interconnection technique can comprise any one of serial, USB, fire wall and other external components agreements or make up.

Be designed to only handle under the situation of the fabric of cutting out and making in manufacturing system, request can include only standard size, and it can be obtained by treatment element 70.Thereby producing component 40 at first checks whether satisfy dimensional requirement, sends the order that produces to order executive component 50 then, and it produces carries out steering order and deliver to control element 60.

Be designed only to be used to handle under the situation of the fabric of not making and not cutting out at manufacturing system M1, order executive component 50 produces and is used to cut out the steering order of operation 80 and is used for subsequently the steering order of making operation according to being included in size in user's request and pattern or shape information.

When manufacturing system M4 shown in Figure 7 is designed to handle the fabric of not cutting out He cut out in advance, select element 45 to check that stocks' cuts out the data (for example standard size) that whether fabric satisfies provides in its request by the user in advance, perhaps whether need the material do not cut out, select to use then do not cut out or cut out material in advance and carry out steering order by its order that impels order executive component 50 to produce these selections of response.

Next step, control element 60 by in treatment element 70, this situation cutting out operation 80 and execution command is carried out in digital printing equipment 90 control, subsequently with group technology cut out, stamp and make uncoloured fabric stock material, with the customized textile good that obtains to finish according to user's request.Sewing tech can be by being arranged in after the digital printing equipment 90 or before sewing device (not shown) carries out making operation.

Fig. 5 illustrates another embodiment of the system 200 that is used for customized industrial textile coloration.System shown in Figure 5 200 comprises client 5, and it can be aforesaid type.Be different from the client of describing with reference to figure 25, the client 5 of the system 200 of second embodiment is not directly connected to one or more databases, but be linked to central server S, its be linked to again one or more database D B1, DB2, DB3 (Fig. 5 shown in embodiment be limited to three databases and only be used to the purpose illustrated; The database that is appreciated that any proper number can be linked to server S).In addition, server is linked to one or more manufacturing system M ', M " (Fig. 5 shown in embodiment be limited to two manufacturing systems and only be used to the purpose illustrated; Be appreciated that server S can be linked to the manufacturing system of any proper number).

The embodiment of system 200 in operation, shown in Figure 5 provides more more options to the user.Use the people of client not necessarily to recognize any difference,, promptly obtain information, customize and select data and produce manufacturing to ask according to the data of selecting (with importing) from one or more databases because the processing of the client of system maintenance is identical.

Yet for second embodiment shown in Figure 5, S obtains database information by central server, and the permission system uses a plurality of databases, and described database can be special-purpose, and by different possessors (retailer, the trade mark people, the deviser, etc.) operation.Can there be such database, it comprises the close set information data that is used to order customized textile good (for example pattern, size, color, figure, cloth or fabric type etc.), can also there be such database, it is " special use " database, and only comprise particular data, for example only comprise figure, or only comprise color.This private database is passable, for example, and by its figure or colour planning being provided by the deviser and moving from pattern, size and cloth or the fabric type data combination of other databases.Design and setting server S can not make up to determine which database can make up with which database, and in a suitable manner various wide area information server contents are offered the user.This can be for example by omit with other be shown in user's data storehouse content mutually the data-base content of pipe finish, or finish by possible combination to correspondingly indicated number data of user.

In addition, when the user selected, which manufacturing system that central server S can determine to be linked to server was suitable one of the customization colored textile of making described request, and the user's that will send from client request sends to the manufacturing system of selection.This expression server S can be as the door of a plurality of retail customer of service system by individual retail customer system being connected to a plurality of manufacturing systems and obtaining the best supply of material, best combination etc.Equally, central server can be given order a plurality of manufacturing systems, to increase output by parallel and/or load balance.Can also select manufacturing system with predefined procedure based on former experience (for example, based on former quality or timeliness).

Therefore, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that, the multiple variation of setting system of the present invention all is possible, as shown in Figure 6, wherein than system shown in Figure 5, another database D B4 is directly connected to client 5, and another database D B5 is connected to the server S and the second manufacturing system M ".It can be special-purpose client 5 that database D B4 is connected to, and the owner who passes through the POS client moves, described owner wishes to provide the extra selection to data to his client, be connected to the second manufacturing system M " database D B5 can be special-purpose; and the operation of the owner by this manufacturing system; described owner provides the set of his scope or clothes parameter such as design, pattern and/or figure or particular web quality, and provides this scope by server S.That carries out in manufacturing system cuts out and makes that operation can be set to manually according to the technology of using, semi-automatic or full-automatic carrying out.

As mentioned above, the invention provides the system and method that is used for customized industrial textile coloration (i.e. dyeing or stamp), it allows (purchase cycle) manufacturing customized textiles fabric in the very short time.Itself in addition purchase cycle can be reduced to 1 to 30 day, and make the field purchase cycle up to 10 weeks at conventional textile.

The article that fashion is followed in manufacturing depend on product greatly and are handed over to speed and time to client.Under the situation of customized textiles, this is very important.Yet existing textile supply of material chain more complicated, length and invalid are especially because serigraphy.By contrast, the present invention has realized effective combination and integrated system, and it uses numeral painted, and is making painting cloth making and make.This allows to reduce the stock and transport cost, because be that uncoloured fabric also is colored in combination process then and makes by the stock.Thereby, only transport the product of requirement.Especially reduced inventory cost for the shop keeper, it no longer must provide (payment) big stock.Textile is because stock's long time and out-of-date waste has obtained reducing, and since the loss of income that causes of reducing the price at the fashion cycle end also reduced.And, when the applied customization coloring system, recurrent when textile article does not have the color of correct size or coupling and unsalablely also having reduced of causing under the situation of long purchase cycle.

The present invention can industry make large batch of textile article, and be the basis of business prototype of operation system of the present invention, described system comprises trade mark people and retailer, cuts out and make company, digital printing operation, digital printer manufacturer and to be used for painted be the chemical reagent and the ink manufacturer of stamp or dyeing.

In the computer based of above-mentioned functions was implemented, wherein the computer program of embeddeding computer code can be used to control CPU to obtain described function.Described computer program can use in conjunction with other computer program, for example operating system and/or other commercial set of tools (for example MicrosoftOFFICE).

Computer program can move on single disposal system or a plurality of disposal system.

Claims (42)

1. A method for manufacturing a custom technical textile article comprising Under the control of the client system: obtaining information concerning the design of custom textile items to be manufactured; selecting desired design data from a database; and sending said selected design data as a manufacturing request to a manufacturing system; and under control of the manufacturing system: receiving said request for manufacture of a custom textile item; generating an order for the manufacture of said custom textile item; Fabric stock material available uncut and unpigmented; (a) coloring using digital coloring equipment, (b) cutting, and (c) sewing said uncolored fabric stock material in a combined process in any order to obtain a finished custom textile according to said request thing. 2. A method for manufacturing a custom technical textile article comprising Under the control of the client system: obtaining information concerning the design of custom textile items to be manufactured; select desired design data from one or more databases; sending said selected data to a manufacturing system as a manufacturing request; Under the control of said manufacturing system: receive said request; generate orders for the manufacture of custom textile items; Offers pre-cut unpigmented fabric stock material; The pre-cut uncolored fabric stock material is colored using a digital coloring device and sewn to obtain a finished custom textile item according to the request. 3. A method for manufacturing a custom technical textile article comprising Under the control of the client system: obtaining information concerning the design of custom textile items to be manufactured; selecting desired design data from at least one database; sending said selected data to a manufacturing system as a manufacturing request; Under the control of said manufacturing system: receive said request; generate orders for the manufacture of custom textile items; Available in pre-cut and pre-sewn unpigmented stock material; The pre-cut and pre-sewn uncolored stock material is colored using a digital coloring device to obtain a finished custom textile item according to the request. 4. A method for manufacturing a custom technical textile article comprising Under the control of the client system: obtaining information concerning the design of custom textile items to be manufactured; selecting desired design data from at least one database; sending said selected design data to a manufacturing system as a manufacturing request; Under the control of said manufacturing system: receive said request; generate orders for the manufacture of custom textile items; The option to provide uncut or pre-cut unpigmented fabric stock material upon said request; Where the option is to provide uncut, unpigmented fabric stock material: Provide uncut, unpigmented fabric stock material; and said unpigmented fabric stock material is subsequently coloured, cut and sewn in a combined process to obtain a finished custom textile fabric according to said request; Where the option to provide pre-cut unpigmented fabric stock material: Provide pre-cut unpigmented fabric stock material; and coloring said pre-cut uncolored fabric stock material to obtain a finished custom textile fabric according to said request, Wherein in coloring said uncolored fabric stock material a digital coloring device is used. 5. A method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising entering additional personal data concerning the identification of the purchaser. 6. A method according to any one of claims 1 to 5, further comprising entering additional personal data relating to the dimensions of the custom textile item to be manufactured. 7. A method according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising entering additional personal data relating to the body dimensions of the individual wearing said textile article. 8. A method according to claim 7, wherein the additional personal data is entered manually. 9. A method according to claim 7, wherein said additional personal data is obtained using a body scanning device. 10. A method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein said at least one database contains purchaser-selectable data regarding graphics, styles, fabric quality and colour. 11. A method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, further comprising checking compatibility of said selected design data contained in said request with personal design criteria. 12. A method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein said uncut unpigmented fabric stock material is provided from a roll of fabric. 13. A method according to claim 3 or 4, further comprising inputting additional personal data which is closest to the standard size of the individual body size of the textile item. 14. The method according to claim 3 or 4, further comprising manually entering additional personal data, said personal data being the closest to the standard size of the individual body size of the textile item. 15. A method according to claim 3 or 4, further comprising using the volume scanning device to input additional personal data comprising data of the standard dimensions closest to the individual body dimensions of the textile item. 16. A method according to claim 4, wherein the step of selecting to provide uncut or pre-cut unpigmented fabric textile material is determined from said selected design data contained in said request. 17. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 16, further comprising: enter additional personal data; and The additional personal data is sent to the manufacturing system as part of the manufacturing request. 18. A customer system for ordering custom textile items comprising: at least one acquisition element for acquiring information related to the design of the custom textile item from at least one database; at least one display element for displaying said acquired information; at least one input element for selecting desired design data from said displayed information; At least one order component sends a request to the manufacturing system in response to completion of said selection of desired design data. 19. The client system according to claim 18, wherein said input element further comprises an element for inputting additional personal data. 20. A manufacturing system for manufacturing custom textile items, comprising: a receiving element for receiving a request comprising custom selection data for manufacturing a custom textile item; a generating element for generating a manufacturing order from said received request; The order execution component is used to generate order execution control instructions; a processing element for providing unpigmented stock material in response to said instruction; a digital coloring device for coloring said uncolored stock material in response to said instructions; An instruction execution control element, configured to control execution of the execution control instruction by the processing element and the digital coloring device. 21. The system of claim 20, wherein said processing element provides uncut and uncolored fabric stock material. 22. The system according to claim 20, wherein said processing element provides pre-cut uncolored fabric stock material, said system further comprising a digital coloring device and a sewing device for performing a sewing operation to sew the cut Colored fabric pieces, said digital coloring device and said sewing operation are controlled by said instruction execution control element. 23. The system of claim 20, wherein said processing element provides pre-cut and pre-sewn uncolored stock material, said system further comprising a digital coloring device controlled by said instruction execution control element . 24. The system of claim 20, further comprising: a selection element for selecting to provide uncut or pre-cut uncolored fabric stock material in response to said request, and causing said order execution element to generate order execution control instructions in response to said selection; The processing element provides uncut or pre-cut uncolored fabric stock material in response to the instructions. 25. A system for manufacturing custom technical textile items, comprising: at least one customer system for ordering custom textile items according to claim 18; and At least one manufacturing system for manufacturing custom textile items according to claim 20. 26. The system of claim 25, further comprising: A server system linked to (1) said at least one client system and (2) at least one database containing design data for customizing textile items, said client system obtaining information to be displayed via said server system. 27. The system according to claim 26, wherein said server system is also linked to a corresponding one of said at least one manufacturing system, and wherein requests from said client system are sent to said at least one manufacturing system through said server system corresponding to one. 28. The system according to claim 26, said server system further comprising a checking element for checking compatibility of design data selected by a user of said client system from a different database. 29. The system according to claim 28, wherein said server system is linked to a plurality of manufacturing systems, and further comprises a determining element for determining an appropriate manufacturing system considering the compatibility of said selected design data, and sending Said request of the system is sent to said appropriate manufacturing system. 30. A computer program product having a computer-readable medium and a computer program stored in the computer-readable medium in program code for implementing the computer program according to any one of claims 1 to 17 when said computer program is executed on a computer item method. 31. A computer-implemented method for carrying out the method according to any one of claims 1 to 17 when a computer program is executed on a computer. 32. A method for ordering a custom technical textile item comprising: obtaining information concerning the design of custom textile items to be manufactured; selecting desired design data from at least one database; and The selected design data is sent to a manufacturing system as a manufacturing request. 33. The method of claim 32, further comprising: enter additional personal data; and The additional personal data is sent to the manufacturing system as part of the manufacturing request. 34. A method according to claim 33, wherein said additional personal data includes data pertaining to identifying the purchaser. 35. A method according to claim 33, wherein said additional personal data includes data relating to the dimensions of the desired customized textile item to be manufactured. 36. The method of claim 33, wherein said additional personal data includes data relating to the body dimensions of the individual wearing said textile article. 37. A method according to claim 36, wherein said additional personal data is entered manually. 38. A method according to claim 36, wherein said additional personal data is obtained using a body scanning device. 39. A method according to any one of claims 32 to 38, wherein said at least one database contains purchaser selectable data relating to graphics, styles, fabric quality and colour. 40. A method according to any one of claims 32 to 39, further comprising checking said selected design data contained in said request for compatibility with personal design criteria. 41. A method for manufacturing a custom technical textile article, comprising: receive requests for the manufacture of custom textile items; generating an order for the manufacture of said custom textile item; Fabric stock material available uncut and unpigmented; The following steps are then carried out in any order in a combined process: (a) coloring using digital coloring equipment, (b) cutting, and (c) sewing said uncolored fabric stock material to obtain a finish according to said request custom textile items. 42. The method of claim 41, wherein said uncut unpigmented fabric stock material is provided from a roll of fabric.

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